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2 Phil. L. Rev. 1 (1912-1913)

handle is hein.journals/plnlwrvw2 and id is 1 raw text is: PHILIPPINE LAW REVIEW VOL. II. November 1912. No. 1. THE MODERN CIVIL LAW. LAS SIETE PARTIDAS. (Continued.] b. THE LAWIV OF PROPERTY. T HE last five titles (XXVII[-XXXL[) of the Third, and most of the Sixth, Parlida treat of subjects which the Institutes of Justinian comprehend in Book If and the first part of Book III, to wit property and its transinis- sion. The separation above indicated is not an improv- ement and the Spanish jurists would have done better had they followed the arrangement, as closely as they did the contents, of their Roman models. Beginning with the definition of ownership or dominion (sellorio) Title XXVIII of the Third Parlida proceeds, in the conventional Roman way, to a classification of property and the modes of its' acquisitioa. Title XXIX treats of prescriptioa and reproduces the Justinian periods of three years for im- mnovables and ten years for movables, or twenty if the adverse claimant is absent. Title XXX contains a brief treatment of possession and the modes of acquiring and losing it while Title XXXI is devoted to servitudes (ser- ridumbres)l and here again we find a condensed para- phrase of the Institutes. Of the servittes risticas, iter reappears as senda, actus as carrera, via under the same 1. Wrongly translated services in Morectu & Carleton's edition. Digitized from Best Copy Available